Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is more important, however, is the revealing light which such polls spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices...
...What a gorgeous work," she gasped. "I just love Orozco; he's the artist...
...opening had little to do with art, a lot to do with England. Star picture was Frank Ernest Beresford's The Princes' Vigil showing the four sons of the late King George V standing guard around his catafalque in the ancient barn of West minster Hall. The artist was chiefly proud of having sketched it so discreetly on his shirt cuffs that no mourner was offended. The high-collared oldster Frank Owens Salisbury drew the greatest crowds with his official portrait of King George at the Silver Jubilee services in St. Paul's last year. He loyally...
...customary portrait of his wife, Jane. Three years ago he broke off the series of Janes because they had become an Academy joke, promised this year to prove his versatility by submitting a portrait of Eton's provost, Dr. Montague Rhodes James. Dr. James fell ill and Artist Kelly ended by submitting another Jane, this time in a blue 18th Century gown...
...Thomas Cantrell Dugdale's portrait of Actress Vivien Leigh in bed, the Royal Academy's pressagent thought it necessary to explain that the artist, calling to arrange sittings, had found Miss Leigh ill in bed, decided to do her that way, in a sheer blue nightgown. Only ''challenge to orthodoxy'' in the show was a double portrait of another actress lying on a couch in her unmarried personality, leaning over the couch in her married personality...